rootbsd is the classic choice http://www.rootbsd.net/

there are also some freebsd images for AWS out there.

I also have freebsd vm's with crowncloud http://crowncloud.net/ and orangewebsite https://www.orangewebsite.com/vps.php

I've had a good experience with the last two. I chose them because they accept bitcoin (and orangewebsite is owned and operated in Iceland). If you go for some of the lesser known hosts, they will be flexible with what OS you want to use, especially if their platform is KVM based.

somewhat tangential to your point of implementing a so-called SOP, I think the discussion of state, as it relates to OOP or otherwise, can result in very philosophical conversations. see here: http://clojure.org/state

As an ex philosophy major, immutable state and its implications on identity interest me greatly. I feel like this, and other ideas from FP, could be considered a step toward a so-called Subject-Object Programming paradigm.

hey, i made something like that! http://stats.timgallant.us/

Thanks! I'll look into setting up a URL route for easier sharing. Also, here is the code that handles the sentiment analysis https://github.com/tgallant/blog-checker/blob/master/src/blo...

It looks like you are tokenizing scores file too. That way the prefix information will be lost. As an example,

    admir* 3
    amaz* 3
    interest* 2

should add up positive scores to words starting with admir|amaz|interest.

People think it is a magical black box because the code in the parent comment, and in the thread you linked, is three and a half years old, and HN does not run these days on exactly the same code that was open-sourced in news.arc.